Hide/cloak the location of my images?

Yes, you definitely can.

 

Dude, you asked a question and i answered it, the question was "Can I use php to hide the real location of my images?"

Did you want something else? If you wanted the code, then you should have said so...

You should formulate your questions better, before insulting people trying to help you and demanding "intelligent answer". Ask a dumb question and the answer will be the same.

 

Hi Kerosene, no problem, apology accepted, sorry if i offended you. I was actually writing the code and then saw you already solved it (I saw your code too, before you edited it ).

Here just few suggestions, for securing the script better:
1) If images are only numbers, then do intval($_GET['img']).
2) Check the passed parameter for file existance before you output it. In that case you could output an "blank.jpg", or "nohacking.jpg", etc, which is better than generating a "broken" image in browser or outputing the error which will give the path of your images folder away.

There is more to it, but this should be enough for the moment...

Take care

 

just use a proxy?

 

You can use mod_rewrite. PS: People can still hotlink to your images through that btw.

 

Can I ask he purpose of that hiding ?

The easiest/fastest solution is with Apache "mod rewite" module as tushardhoot1 said.
With this method you don't need a .php file, only a couple of lines on your .htaccess file:
Example

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule    ^inexistentPhpScript.php?img=(.*)&f=(.*)$   /folder/$2/$1.jpg   [L]

Code (markup):

But if you want to limit the amount of images served per IP, or another task .... then you'll need to code by yourself.